The Hidden Treasure

The Guardian recently announced that the deep-sea gold rush for rare metals has officially begun, with mining companies

planning to profit from rare earths discovered 4,000 metres below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. However, with millions

of tons of e-waste produced every year and increasingly sophisticated techniques to recover rare metals from it, a more

environmentally friendly alternative might be hiding in plain sight.

Rare earths also find important applications in industrial automation. For example, servo motors rely on magnetic materials

containing neodymium and dysprosium, while gallium is used in its liquid form in human-machine interfaces (HMIs).

Many of our discarded devices, both consumer technology and industrial equipment, contain precious rare earths. Instead of

rushing to mine rare metals from one of the few untouched ecosystems left on the planet, we should invest in viable methods

of recovering the astonishing amount of these substances that are present in our discarded devices. At the moment, the process

of retrieving rare earths from legacy technology, known as smelting, is very costly and energy-intensive, which is why more

research is needed.

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